Needle Engine Blender Addon 0.51.3

• Revert change in gather_animation_channel_hook method signature causing export error due to inconsistent hook in Blender's glTF exporter #2337

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3.47.6-pre

Needle Engine

• Add: Mathf.random() can now also accept an array to randomly select an element
• Add: AudioSource pitch property
• Add: SpriteRenderer addSprite method
• Add: SpriteRenderer texture setter to change the texture of the currently rendered sprite
• Fix: SpriteRenderer sprite setter
• Fix: OrbitControls double click to focus should not focus if the click was already used (e.g. by a button)
• Fix: XR screenshot() support
• Fix: DragControls now work with physical objects again e.g. Rigidbodies that react to gravity

Unity Integration

• Add: SkyboxGradient shader Softness property to adjust the softness of the color transition
• Add: Few more Gradient Skybox Materials
• Fix: Custom Cubemap export validation
• Fix: Npmdef component generation should allow abstract classes

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3.47.6

Needle Engine

• Fix: USDZ animation interpolation. We're now using timesamples for translation, orientation and scale separately. This fixes an issue with animation optimization (optimization removing redundant keyframes) to just 2 keyframes where matrix timesamples would produce unexpected interpolations
• Change: inline mesh bvh worker

Unity Integration

• Minor console log fix

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Needle Engine Blender Addon 0.51.2

• Fix: Export issue if addon gets disabled and user tries to export a glTF
• Update: Needle Engine to 3.47.6-beta

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3.47.5-pre.1

Needle Engine

• Add: screenshot option to output a texture
• Fix: screenshot method when using a camera with a RenderTexture assigned
• Fix: ObjectUtils.createPrimitive option linting
• Change: Addressables instantiate method now returns Object3D type

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3.47.5-pre

Needle Engine

• Fix: Shader warmup when loading glTF file containing only materials (no scenes)
• Fix: OrbitControls autoTarget option causing setLookTargetPosition to be overriden during the first frame
• Fix: Compressed RenderTexture not being updated on objects in the scene
• Fix: Physics mesh BVH generation on worker caused raycasts during processing to not work until the BVH was ready

Additional changes for Needle Engine 3.47.4-beta

• Add: Support loading of glTF files in <needle-engine src="..."> that don't contain any objects/scenes but just materials. These glTF files will be rendered with a shaderball
• Fix: three.js changing environment texture while in XR
• Fix: three.js OrbitControls zoom damping
• Fix: GroundProjectedEnv error when setting height as part of init properties as part of addComponent(..., { height: 4 })
• Fix: OrbitControls minZoom and maxZoom should be applied during update
• Fix: Regression in ParticleSystem trail rendering where mode was not set correctly
• Change: Camera backgroundBlurriness and backgroundIntensity should be undefined by default
• Change: OrbitControls fitCamera can now also take a single object as a first parameter

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3.47.4-pre

Needle Engine

• Add: OrbitControls fitCamera method overload which can directly take an options parameter. E.g. it can be invoked with fitCamera({ immediate: false })
• Fix: Lifecycle hooks like onStart and onInitialized are now properly called again for new subscribers
• Fix: Regression in raycasting with multi-material objects
• Fix: <needle-engine> canvas highlighting with touch on iOS
• Fix: Issue where automatic camera change stopped working
• Fix: screenshot should update the camera aspect ratio before rendering
• Fix: Physics raycasts do now run basic geometry validation
• Change: The WebGL context is now automatically restored when lost

Unity Integration

• Fix: OSX commands using npx
• Fix: Needle Engine classes declared like export default class are now automatically picked-up as well
• Internal: OSX bugreports now include the Editor.log files

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Needle Engine Blender Addon 0.51.1

• Fix: Issue with drawing the projects panel

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3.47.3-pre

Needle Engine

• Add: Improved ParticleSystem MinMaxCurve and MinMaxGradient types with utility methods (constant, betweenTwoColors / setConstant, setMinMaxConstant, setCurve)
• Add: preliminary support for MX Ink pens
• Add: NeedleXRController pinchPosition getter for hand tracking
• Add: SceneSwitcher add sceneLoaded Eventlist
• Add: DragControls static CurrentlySelected getter to access all currently active DragControls components
• Fix: Gizmo label offset
• Fix: XRControllerFollow on VisionOS with hand tracking
• Fix: Vision OS depth buffer workaround (FB14720123)
• Fix: emulate grip space for hands that don't have grip space
• Fix: screenshot2 should use passed in camera
• Fix: nextjs plugin fix for error caused by mesh bvh worker integration
• Fix: input.mouseDoubleClick getter
• Fix: EventList invocation with custom arguments (e.g. myEvent.invoke("test"))

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3.47.2-pre

Needle Engine

• Add: Type definitions for Object3D Needle Engine extension methods like addComponent or worldPosition
• Add: ObjectUtils createText
• Add: static BoxCollider.add method
• Add: Experimental util method PlayerSync.setupFrom to easily setup networked player representations
• Add: ContactShadows minSize property
• Fix: ShadowCatcher should set receiveShadow to true
• Fix: Animation play should restart the animation if it's at the end
• Fix: ContactShadows should ignore Line materials
• Fix: SyncedRoom component is easier to setup from code
• Fix: Properly resolve EventList calls when using instantiate to the new instances
• Fix: WebXR simulator hand gesture calculation
• Fix: WebXR desktop preview with postprocessing enabled
• Fix: WebXR input click detection
• Change: Physics collider center x should not be flipped. Instead the exporters need to ensure the correct space

Unity Integration

• Add: Basic Everywhere Actions Unity Runtime implementation:
  • ChangeMaterialOnClick
  • ChangeTransformOnClick
  • HideOnStart
  • PlayAnimationOnClick
  • PlayAudioOnClick
  • SetActiveOnClick
• Add: Improved support for importing glTF files with asset references:
  • Import of AudioSource component with referenced AudioClip file
  • Import of VideoPlayer component with referenced VideoClip file

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